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disease advances, palsy of the hind quarters, supervenes and 

 the sheep rises up with difficulty, or not at all. 



Treatment. — The animal should at once be brought in 

 the house and well protected from wet and cold. Its loins 

 and belly should be mopped with hot mustard water and 

 covered with a rubber cloth, to keep the heat in. Internally 

 it should take — 



No. 397. Oil of turpentine, i oz. 



Linseed oil, 1^ oz. 



Mix for a dose. 



The diet should be nourishing and stimulating; as, for 

 instance, oat-meal gruel, made with cow's milk, and contain- 

 ing a spoonful of powdered ginger or essence of ginger. 

 With this treatment, recovery is pretty sure to take place. 



HOOF EOT— FOOT ROT. 



This is one of the most common diseases of American 

 sheep, and with which every sheep owner in all parts of our 

 land is pretty certain to become familiar at some period of 

 his experience. 



Causes. — As to its cause, there can be no doubt but that it 

 is generally contagion — always contagion, many observant 

 breeders say. Others assert that it can be developed spon- 

 taneously by pasturing in rank, lush grass, on damp 

 meadows, and in boggy fields. They perhaps confound it 

 with foul, in the foot, which is a comparatively trifling and 

 temporary affection. 



Symptoms. — The descriptions of this disease as it appears 

 in various prominent English works, notably those of Mr. 

 Youatt, are misleading and inapplicable to the American 

 form of it, especially in its earlier stages. We shall there- 

 fore rather depend on the descriptions of Col. Randall and 



